Wisdom is a blaze, kindled by a leaping spark. Plato More Quotes by Plato More Quotes From Plato The contemplation of beauty causes the soul to grow wings. Plato soul wings beauty When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them. Plato caring men believe To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way. Plato education beautiful love The cause of all the blunders committed by man arises from this excessive self-love. For the lover is blinded by the object loved; so that he passes a wrong judgment on what is just, good and beautiful, thinking that he ought always to honor what belongs to himself in preference to truth. For he who intends to be a great man ought to love neither himself nor his own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by himself, or by another. Plato beautiful men thinking Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. Plato land sports commitment Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it. Plato roots education school I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us. Plato argument walks mean Self conquest is the greatest of victories. Plato plato inspirational life To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art. Plato learning wine art In heaven there is laid up a pattern which he who chooses may behold, and beholding, set his own house in order. The time has now arrived at which they must raise the eye of the soul to the Universal Light which lightens all things. With the eye ever directed toward things fixed and immutable which neither injure nor are injured - these they cannot help imitating. But I quite admit the difficulty of believing that in every man there is an eye of the soul which by the right direction is re-illumined, and is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes. Plato eye men believe The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken. Plato new-beginnings taken leadership Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient. Plato universal-truth universal soul It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself. Plato harmony would-be men Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous. Plato plato evil knowledge This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related. Plato nature soul world Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline operates by being diffused throughout the whole of it. It produces a concord between its strongest and weakest and middle elements, whether you define them by the standard of good sense, or of strength, or of numbers or money or the like. And so we are quite justified in regarding discipline as this sort of natural harmony and agreement between higher and lower about which of them is to rule in state and individual. Plato agreement wise numbers The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien. Plato dog opposites people At the touch of love, everyone is a poet. Plato love-everyone poet cute In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes. Plato eye plato beautiful The Paphian Queen to Cnidos made repair Across the tide to see her image there: Then looking up and round the prospect wide, When did Praxiteles see me thus? she cried. Plato sculpture tides queens
